That time of the week again - Friday water displascement behavior! And I got this out nice and early so that many of you can enjoy a full day of checking out the previous week's water news!
I'm enjoying (?) the Dulles Airport environs, attending my last winter board meeting of AWRA today and tomorrow.
And I'm dry, unlike my home area of the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Enjoy!
Books and Book Reviews
RT @cynthiabarnett "Every American who flushes a toilet should read this book," thanks@jaxdotcom! http://bit.ly/ABmii6
Bottled Water and Tap/Drinking Water
RT @WaterPuppetry Swallowing the pharmaceutical watershttp://bit.ly/yze8C7@CMAJ_News RT @mello76@SeawaBob @SEAlbertawaters@waterca
NYT: Can drinking water lower the risk of diabetes?http://is.gd/OhygPf
@PacificInstitut & others to launch beta version of WeTap,Android app to locate DW fountains worldwide. iPhone version later.
Climate Change, Climate, and Meteorology
RT @ClimateTreaty Economic Survey 2011-12 to devote a full chapter on climate changehttp://bit.ly/w112eo
Water & CC in the Americas site. English: http://is.gd/O4yALPespañol: http://is.gd/lKucxh
RT @NRDC Agriculture and Climate Change, Revisitedhttp://nyti.ms/yOrsfa
RT @tveitdal Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue http://bit.ly/wSsohf
RT @InvasiveNotes@TM_Climate: Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at large scale http://bit.ly/wZWW3e(via @stone_circle)
RT @climateprogress Cato’s Patrick Michaels: Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Datahttp://bit.ly/y5T2br
China Gets Rolling on Carbon Trading http://shar.es/WP4br
RT @ClimateTreaty Dueling NY studies over natural gas climate impact http://bit.ly/xOUXB1
Breaking down disciplinary boundaries in climate research: Amazon basin project shows how.http://is.gd/9jpohv
Global Warming Denier Checklisthttp://bit.ly/xFXvLM
Next NOAA Climate Webinar,19 Jan,1 PM EST: 2011 in Review, & next 3 months.http://is.gd/5VggqJ
'Climate babe' (sorry, @KHayhoe) is in here. RT @Climatechg Climate and the culture war http://wapo.st/yal9h5
MT @cgiarclimate 7 concrete actions! http://bit.ly/trZyyN MT@BillGates How can we feed a growing population in the midst of climate change?
RT @ClimateTreaty Feeding The World Gets Short Shrift In Climate Change Debatehttp://bit.ly/wWjQkP
Conflict and Cooperation
MT @columbiawater Ski areas say U.S. Forest Service stole their waterhttp://bit.ly/ABsjoS
Solutions: How Access to Clean Water Prevents Conflict.http://is.gd/iM0xCH
RT @CanadianWater Winnipeg water war brewing?http://bit.ly/xW5dGu
Conservation, Recycling, and Reuse
RT @LATenvironment Toilet to tap. Get used to it, panel says:http://ow.ly/8qj4N #water #recycling
RT @jfleck Is there a Jevons-like paradox with greywater reuse? : jfleck at inkstainhttp://bit.ly/AdCV9q
KUNM ( U of NM) @KUNMnews call-in talk show on water reuse - 2 experts field questions. http://bit.ly/z1R1jZ
Online Q & A on water reuse with Dr. Rhodes Trussell (open till 24 January). http://is.gd/ueQYO2
Video - Conserving water in the TX High Plains - Ogallala Aquifer:http://is.gd/jeQnDG
AWE launches new consumer website: Home Water Works and the Water Calculator.http://is.gd/hAdnch
Recycling water: Difference engine: Waste not, want not | The Economist http://econ.st/w3323p
Earth Science
Recalls LANL HDR project. Via@cfishman Geothermal elec by pouring H2O into OR volcano? Google thinks it might work.http://apne.ws/zqYHRx
Education
Sunday Sneak Preview: Elite Eight from JAWRA February 2012http://bit.ly/w7pA3L
MT @deepseadawn Acad. Scholars “Lost 2 the Academy”? More Public Intellectuals in CC Debate Neededhttp://bit.ly/ycyVYe via@HoffmanAndy
RT @dotearth Climate 101 – Online and Free http://nyti.ms/wLSlSQ
RT @grist A Farmvillesque wetlands protection game that actually helps real-life wetlands http://bit.ly/wkugyr
Events
MSSC Annual Salinity Summit in LV, 26-27 January 2012.http://is.gd/OmZW7G
Cold regions water resources? Go to AWRA Alaska Annual Meeting, 4-8 March 2012, Juneau.http://is.gd/XEk4OR
2012 Annual Nevada NSF Climate Change Meeting, UNLV, 13 Feb.http://is.gd/PwWj80
Off to DC for my last winter AWRA BoD meeting. http://www.awra.org
SuWaMa - 2013 Sustainable Watershed Management Conference, Turkey, 22-25 April. http://is.gd/HsFPt9
Floods and Droughts
Via @chanceofraincom William deBuys LAT Op-Ed: Adding up the water deficit. http://is.gd/O3DynV
RT @ASCETweets New levee system part of Louisiana's $50B coastal plan http://ow.ly/8sAfc
RT @prquinlan Army Corps of Engineers gets busy on flood projects as river level dropshttp://bit.ly/yMKvWm
RT @matt_weiser Editorial: State flood plan a sea change for CA.http://ht.ly/1Eh2rS #cawater #caflood
Floods - Oregon and PNW
MT @highlyanne Willamette Valley (OR) comparing 2012 flooding to 1996: few differences in valley? but less snow in mtnshttp://bit.ly/ymJ6Ki
RT @KEZI9 A woman was rescued from her submerged Ford Mustang near Corvallis,OR.http://ow.ly/8B11D
My home area! MT @lockwooddewitt Gallery of 52 mid-Willamette Valley (OR) flood photos. http://tinyurl.com/75cqbsr
@highlyanne No, I have been in DC area since Jan 18 for AWRA BoD meeting. Return home late on 22 January.
@highlyanne We live in Timber Hill area - dry.Wife drove home from PDX 19 Jan, said there were numerous large lakes, Will River REALLY hi!
@ngwatweets Thanks! I am DC 18-22 Jan, but my house is safe - high ground.
RT @KEZI9 Two Adults, Dogs Rescued from Flooded #Albany (OR) House http://ow.ly/8B1ua #news #Oregon
RT @Statesman_Journal Willamette River reaches flood stagehttp://stjr.nl/wp0tF4
Willamette Valley (Oregon) flooding turns deadly, causes evacuations. http://is.gd/wvsUGS
Western Oregon: the flood of 2012.http://is.gd/WZTEqL
My home area...Corvallis & Benton County (Oregon) declared disaster areas. http://is.gd/GKmxaU
Mary's River reaches record stage.http://is.gd/wVOtod
Well water may be contaminated after flooding (Oregon)http://is.gd/2lb3jx
Oregon winter storm: Mother and child die; 17 rivers at or near flood stage; more rain on the way. http://is.gd/CePz7e
RT @gtnews What to do in Corvallis when it floods:http://ow.ly/8BbMl
Groundwater
RT @PLFAGCTX Edwards Aquifer Recovery program success.http://is.gd/fuwpTT
RT @columbiawater CWC demonstrating ways to reduce groundwater depletion and improve livelihoods in Indiahttp://bit.ly/oYywB7 #water #India
Hydrofracking and Related
MT @nytenvironment Texas Tribune: New TX Rule to Unlock Secrets of Hydraulic Fracturing.http://nyti.ms/xwjrBh
RT @columbiawater EPA say NY should map gas wells, set radiation limits http://bit.ly/yeEanV
CDC scientist: more tests needed on effects of shale gas drilling on human health and environmenthttp://is.gd/SckrVZ
NYS gets 20,000 comments on shale gas drilling rules.http://is.gd/OVl1JU
MT @oilgasTicker Fracking starts to tap Central Louisiana's shale-wrapped oil and gas.http://bit.ly/AbtihL
RT @foodandwater Next time somebody tells you #fracking is safe, direct them to this video:http://bit.ly/zqz558
Alberta regulators say hydraulic fracturing may have caused oil spill on farm near Innisfail.http://is.gd/oT4HCV
Citizens' group: Wyoming siding with industry on fracking issue.http://is.gd/3WDmLI
UK geologists: fracking risk is exaggerated. http://is.gd/lRWb9T
RT @ProPublica EPA to supply drinking water to 4 PA homes,years after evidence of #frackingcontamination. bit.ly/w6rkM
Halliburton to build $20 million terminal in Windsor (CO) to support hydraulic fracturing activity. http://is.gd/kzHRLA
Hydrophilanthropy
Via @waterforpeople Live near Denver? Join us March 9 at 2012 Rocky Mtn Section of WFP Annual Theme Dinner!http://ow.ly/1DRnJQ
Honduras Agonistes: Peace Corps Pull-Out, No West Point Water Project Participationhttp://bit.ly/wkVgRo
Hydrogeologists w/o Borders: Good BoD concall the other day. Will have retreat in Calgary this April/May. http://is.gd/ECTMd0
Miscellaneous
Check out Google today (16 January 2012).http://www.google.com/
RT @phixod I just posted Water, read it here: http://phixod.com/?p=108
Via @highcountrynews GM or no, farmed salmon a risky business.http://is.gd/efLnE3
If You've Got the Chloroquine Crazies or Mefloquine Malaise, Maybe Artemisinin's the Answerhttp://bit.ly/A0HXbc
RT @nytimesscience For Intrigue, Malaria Drug Artemisinin Gets the Prize http://nyti.ms/yypUmK
Opportunities
Abstract deadline for both AWRA Summer Specialty Conferences (Denver): 6 Feb 22012.http://is.gd/4ju39Z
MT @H2ODVA For CA: Agriculture Water Conservation Grants Available @ACWAWater http://j.mp/yCOrfv
Review & provide comments on draft Canadian Natl. Research Agenda for Municipal Wastewater & Biosolids http://is.gd/Zox84j
DISCCRS VII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium. App deadline 29 Feb 2012. http://disccrs.org/
US colleges & universities: USAID funding opportunity - Webinar 24 Jan,1-3 PM EST.http://is.gd/IjkGnp
People and Personal Stuff
RT @jfleck Twain whiskey/water quote alert - Georgia this time:http://bit.ly/zh1AvC
RT @sejorg Fund for Environmental Journalism Announces Winter 2011 Awards | SEJ http://shar.es/WRhQ3
RT @ClimateTreaty Mann, back at UVa for talk, speaks on effort to 'intimidate' http://bit.ly/xfHVcV
Re: previous Tweet about HWB - the BoD will have a retreat in Calgary. It will not be a HWB meeting.
@LindaDahlmeier FYI: I don't interact with CA DWR
Policy, Planning, and Management
Love term 'co-equal' RT@LPAWater Feds,state & #CAwater agencies ink #SacDeltaco-equal goals.http://goo.gl/lFMBM
RT @chanceofraincom New post@California WaterBlog: Some curious things about water managementhttp://wp.me/p17k4l-ke via@wordpressdotcom
Via @circleofblue Public Trust May Be Fresh Approach to Protecting Great Lakes. http://is.gd/MpaSZe
@aguanomics Private and public utilities: good performance or poor oversight? is.gd/7OPCpP
News from 'other' CO River (TX)! RT @KateGalbraith LCRA to publish proposed water plan revision next weekhttp://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/green/entries/2012/01/17/lcra_to_publish_proposed_water.html #txwater
RT @rivrchik Scientists reject plan to save the Murray-Darling http://bit.ly/x2263o RT@smhenvironment
Positions
Position Open: Post-graduate internship, USEPA Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water (DC) http://is.gd/Fe1iIE
Positions Open (2): PhD study - Soil organic carbon stabilization: pedogenic & geomorphic interactions, Belgium.http://is.gd/wUp8om
Positions Open: Postdoctoral Fellows, Earth Institute (Columbia University) 2012 cycle ended; for 2013 check back next fall. http://is.gd/V6VX
Position Open (till filled): Coastal Hydrologist, TX Water Development Board.http://is.gd/oQ1SnC
Streams and Ecosystems
RT @OregonEnviro Volunteers plant hundreds of trees for Shade Our Streams project; next event set for Feb. 11 http://orne.ws/z86Aob
RT @rachaelgleasonEnvironmental Institute creates #wetlands at U. of Houston-Clear Lake. My @HoustonChron story:http://bit.ly/wzzWvT
Twitter, E-Newspapers, and Newsletters
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7-13 January 2012 (Triskaidekaphobia Day!)http://bit.ly/z8j8s2
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 31 December 2011 - 6 January 2012 http://bit.ly/xvMj3P
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 30 December 2011 - Special New Year's Edition! http://bit.ly/vFcxpz
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 23 December 2011 - Special "Season's Greetings" Edition! http://bit.ly/vCDOOE
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 16 December 2011 - Special 'The Scream' Edition!http://bit.ly/tWsJEz
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 9 December 2011 - Special 'World Soil Day' Edition!http://bit.ly/sMfafa
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 2 December 2011 - Special School's Out Edition http://bit.ly/u18vyr
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 25 November 2011 - Special Black Friday Edition http://bit.ly/s2sNZt
RT @worldresources The climate-energy Daily is out!http://bit.ly/9xYfCB ▸ Top stories via @brighterenergy @e2wire@fahrenthold @guardianeco
The @WaterStJournal Daily is out! http://bit.ly/haf8gw ▸ Top stories today via @defeatdd @kateeccles @mghydro @melbournewater@tomasldb
RT @BlueWaterBmore Urban Waters Daily is out!http://bit.ly/w53DDZ ▸ Top stories today via @configurationsc@neuseriverfdn @riverkeeper
RT @CorkEnvForum The Cork Environment Daily is out!http://bit.ly/hPfcHN ▸ Top stories today via @the_ecologist@fotawildlife
The @WaterFootprints Daily is out!http://bit.ly/eDEDnD ▸ Top stories today via @ewebutility
RT @Pauldedigitect's Water paper is out! http://bit.ly/cZ0qjf ▸ Top stories today via @foodandwater@provinciezh @ruimtevdrivier
RT @agleader the #cawater Daily is out! http://bit.ly/cAyvY1 ▸ Top stories today via @lpawater
RT @WhoDat35 The Environmental Daily is out!http://bit.ly/f6ZJjL ▸ Top stories today via @ddimick
Via @SuperWaterMan The Daily Water is out http://bit.ly/snTLGOTop stories today via@ibmsmarterwater@cataulagawx @fjlk9ambiental@elechild
MT @AlbertaEE @geoec: GEOEC Connections Newsletter,devoted to water. http://bit.ly/cpSqlD@RDWA @battleriver@SEAlbertawaters
RT @medindoagua The Água & Water Daily is out!http://bit.ly/hRCisK Top stories today via @waterwise @anagovbr@walksforwater @canadianwater
RT @WorldHygienePrg The Daily WASH is out!http://bit.ly/l3bFmq ▸ Top stories today via @moscarpelli@washlink @joannamchan@gavialliance
RT @SFWMD Get the latest news from the SFWMD in the January edition of The Ripple Effect e-newsletter.http://1.usa.gov/h8iQsN
RT @worldresources The climate-energy Daily is out!http://bit.ly/9xYfCB ▸ Top stories today via @eesionline@ourenergytweet @dsamuelsohn
The @WaterUtilities Daily is out!http://bit.ly/gPIkJ2 ▸ Top stories today via @whitewatergroup@esourcesarah @commoditylive@srscrisafulli
RT @WhoDat35 The Environmental Daily is out!http://bit.ly/f6ZJjL ▸ Top stories today via @globalgreenusa@conont @msoeden@montereyaq
WaSH
MT @NedBreslin Nice report by@BrooksKeene of @Care: lessons from Kenyan school #water, #sanitation, #hygiene program.http://bit.ly/wqj7OZ
Water Quality
EPA releases 2010 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis on 5 Jan. http://is.gd/ZkbEzI
EPA’s 2012 Draft Recreational Water Quality Criteria Webinar, 25 Jan 1-3 PM EST.http://is.gd/feNnwK
Via @USDA_ARS: Prickly pear cactus as a bioremediation tool.http://is.gd/rSVqJj
Cover story @USATODAY: Problems at Hanford vitrification plant. No surprise!http://is.gd/p0PzZz
Water Supply and Water Use
RT @jfleck An experimental Roshamon post on the #ColoradoRiver forecast. Two frames. Let the readers decide.http://bit.ly/vYZ3JQ #westwater
RT @Aquafornia California rice farming technology spotlighted in article: Filling the World's Rice Bowl-w/ Less Waterhttp://bit.ly/wkZ4fI
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert not ready to oppose Green River pipeline — yet. http://is.gd/iKvnc3
SL Tribune opinion: UT Gov. Herbert's opposition to Flaming Gorge project would be...awkward.http://is.gd/0AtCcj
Water worries in Colorado's San Luis Valley come to surface.http://is.gd/CNFNcs
RT @USACESacramento@CA_DWR unveils great new website for current, historical #cawater conditions:http://1.usa.gov/xm7akC
RT @ACWAWater tune in to the live "Head to Head Chat" Tomorrow: Should California build a peripheral canal?http://su.pr/24i7kR #cawater
WTF?
REALLY bad idea! RT@AlanColmes Arming Professors? Has He Ever Been To A Faculty Meeting? http://colm.es/wQnuVG #p2
And Now, Some Fluid Physics: The Whisky and Water Trick!http://bit.ly/ylUn7N
@plutoniumpage FOGBANK already exists: Tony Banks joined remnants of FOGHAT.
13-Stage Industry Strategy for Dealing with an Environmental Challenge http://bit.ly/xhQXri
RT @lockwooddewitt Integrating math and science: John has 4 oranges. He eats one and gives one to a friend. Calculate the mass of the sun.
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain
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